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In order to lower the chance that one will become the victim of a crime, the individual should void the “bad” areas of town in which crime rates are high. For example, South Central Los Angels is notorious for its gangs, and high crime rate. The more an individual ventures into South Central, the more likely they are to become the victim of a crime there. Sociologist William Julius Wilson discusses the social and economic inequality that finds more minorities in the seat of the victim since more minorities are from low income households that are unable to move away from the crime than Caucasians (1990).
Moreover, the deviant place theory suggests that taking safety recitations in these areas may be of little use since it is the neighborhood and not the lifestyle choices that affect victimizing (Siegel, 2006). In a nutshell, if a neighborhood is “deviant,” the only way to lower your risk of victimizing is to leave the neighborhood for a less deviant, low crime rate area. Criminal Activity Jersey City, New Jersey, police make arrests and recovered multiple weapons in overnight two phase mutual-agency operation including Hudson County sheriff office.
The first phase of the sweep began at 4 p. . Yesterday when 45 plainclothes officers and supervisors fanned out across the city’s south and west districts to conduct surveillance and gather information about criminal hot spots, officials said, adding that their findings led to 25 arrests on a number of charges including drug distribution. Phase two began at 8 p. M. And involved 22 uniformed Jersey City police officers, including Emergency Squad officers and officers from the Hudson County Sheriffs Office, who targeted hot spots monitored by earlier teams of officers.
During he second phase police arrested “10 individuals on a variety of charges, issued 42 municipal ordinance summonses and 11 motor vehicle summonses, while recovering two handguns, a replica handgun, a replica Uzi, a crossbow handgun, 14 knives, 19 pairs of handcuffs, a blackjack, 15 bags of marijuana and two bags of cocaine” officials said. The case was started by local agencies and solved by them, to reduce the local criminal activity and help bring peace of mind to its communities. Criminal Justice Bal By contain “Adrian Bernard Seward, a suspect in the murder of his ex-wife, was arrested in
Jacksonville Sunday morning and is expected to be booked into Devalued County Jail later in the day, according to Clay County Sheriffs Office spokeswoman Mary Justine. Seward was arrested without incident at the Economy Lodge near Butler Boulevard by a U. S. Marshals task force and was taken into custody with the assistance of the Jacksonville Sheriffs Office, according to Justine. The couple’s divorce was finalized on Monday. Following the slaying on Friday, the Sheriffs Office put out an alert on Seward and said he should be considered armed and dangerous.